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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

COLONY'S

FROM PAGE ONE

RECORD

January, 16, 1941.

BUDGET:

generally, which seems only fair_in the brandy and whisky drinkers to so far as the sowers provided for the upkeep of the Colony. The those whose tenements have flush amended Entertainments tax should system, have been paid for likewise produce an additional $300,000 per from taxation by the community as annum, the table waters inx $300,000, a whole,

and the increased Estate Duty $800,-

first defence, secondly social services, Defence it is submitted must in pre- sent circumstances come first, but it Provision has also been made for 000. Our prospective deficit is, there- is also submitted that in the present an Infectious Diseases Hospital, and fore, reduced to roughly 3 million Rinancial position of this Colony social a new Publle, Mortuary and Diain-dollars, though I must emplissize that services must not be allowed to lag fecting Station, Kowloon, for a new all these calculations of revenus pre- behind, nor even to stand still, but block for the Central Police Station suppose a continuation of the pro- should advance 80 far cir- and new Police Stations at Kowloon sperity of the Colony, cumstances permit.

Extra War Taxation Tong and Blue Pool Road. The in-

'code for

that there

re-

The major Items in the defence troduction of a new ected in ad- I'mains one way only to incct the re-

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gift will cost several lakhs. Provision simplest way, and I must confess the in "DANCE, GIRL, DANCE”

for the

It appears to me budget for next year are 4

million dollars for the completion of the pro-ditional expenditure in the

Educa-maining deflelt which represents Krumme for the construction of tion Department; and Government roughly the excess of war expendi- tunnels, concrete pens, etc., for the has again felt it its duty to incrense, ture over war revenue and that is by protection of the civil population this time to $750,000, the subvention increasing the

war taxation. Al- gafrist air attack and $5,220,000 for to the Tung With Houpitala. Con- though the Wur evente Ordinance the construction of vessels to be siderable

expenditure 10

under- secured considerably more rc- presented to the Admiralty and War taken ta provide an adequate venue than was anticipated it has Deportment, in respect of which no cemetery for the Chinese population failed to secure enough to meet the expenditure has been incurred during at Wo Hop Shek near Fanting: and revised war expenditure either in the the present

resent year. No

No speciile pro-road maintenance and Improvement current year or in 1941-42. The vision has been made for cash to, HLM.. Government as these

will depend on the financial position dur-has also been made under a new head way which first appealed to me,

recently

atly established Immurn- largely on account of its simplicity, ing the course of the year, but I ven- ture to submit that in meeting from tion Department,. but while it in is to increase the standard rates its own resources the relatively largo hoped that the control of Immigra- possibly by one half from 10% to

tlon will be self-supporting it

It is not

15%

but I am satisfled that this local defence programme undertaken intended that surplus revenue should would emphasise to on intolerable under Your Excellency's direction, be derived therefrom. All items of degree the inequities and

1 Imperfec this Colony has made a definite con- Public Works Extraordinary are ex

orations of the present compromise tribution. to the defence of the

plained in the notes by the Honour- taxe have already stated that Empire.

Social Services

able Director of Public Works already was estimated that the four in the hands of Honourable Members. Would bring in 4 million dollars

onnum, The revised estimate 15 Estimates Pruned Regarding social services it is my

$9,700,000. But how is that com- Brm belief that economic develop- I am afraid nil at these measures posed? (Salaries Tax is estimated ment must precede and be the basis will not find favour with the con- to bring in $1,000,000 as was anti- of social welfare and these draft servative, who will say cut this or cipated, estimates include provision for airetrench that, but if the Colony against's dos in wh

Research Station, and un

un to advance as it should, and it still

and Busin

Pronts should bring 113 Experimental Agricultural Station in lags far behind modern standards in s0,400,000 against $3,000,000, but this the New Territories. Provision for many respects, it must haye these are includes:

aga not less than $5,500.- Agure the building of the Fisheries Research amenities and if it must have them

000

in respect of Corporation Profits Station was included in the printed i unt my for them.

and only $900,000 in respect of Busi estimates for the current year when

The estimates have already been ness Profits, which is disappointingly pruned to what must be considered smalt when it in remembered that an excessive degree by idealists who businesses inclulle all non-incor- year toy condena Government for hav-porated firms, and also professional

Fisheries

it was anticipated that the cost would be

met by a grant from the Colonial Development Fund. During the

13

total

taxes

hat it

taxes per

while Corp000

Three Couraca Open We seem to be faced with three

4 nucleus stal has been engaged with ing falled in the middle of t; men who do not pay Salaries Tax. the approval of this Council and it war to build Jerusalem with its its and health centres, is now proposed to erect the building hospitals itself next year from Colonfal funds colleges wid schools, in Hongkong's alternatives, Brat to perpetuate and These schemes should not only in- green and pleasant land. We have increase the existing inequity by prove

the nutrition of the population tried to steer a middle course and]

the matter of

more

the present standard rates to revert

original proposal of this Government

of Hongkong but should help to make lave followed the golden mean of increasing without other modification the Colony more self-supporting in practicality as against the extremes the existing rates, second to amend

food

supplies.

both of ultra

and radically the present Orthnance with conservatism

its Incidence The draft estimates also include radical change. As I have already view to spreading provision for the daily collection of stated these draft estimates involve third without increasing drastically fairly over the community, nightsoil from the tenements in the a deflelt of 7 million dollars. The urban aren by labour directly em- increase on the rates already re- to proper Income Tax which was the ployed by the Sanitary Department, terred to will, it approved, reduce in place of the present system under that deficit, to roughly $8,500,000. In 1930, and which Government has which the nightsoll is removed by How is that to be met? freelance coolies employed by the Your Excellency has already signed ways considered to be the fairest form of taxation. In this connection householders. This scheme is spon- orders increasing by ten centà per venture to quote my own words ja sored by the Urban Council and gallon the duty on heavy olls to be introducing the War Revenue Bill in us fuel for heavy oil road this Council in March of last year: strongly

used recommended by my Honourable friend the

a duty of vehicles and Imposing Director

The Government has accepted the of ten Medical Services, who

gulion on other hydrocarbon recommendations of the War Revenue Govern-cents per 15

oils at present untaxed, which are Committee and the Bill which I am inent's adviser in health matters.

Increase On Rates

estimated to bring in $1,000,000 per asking to have read to-day for the annum, and an order further increas-first time is a Government measure. The Urban Council has suggested, ing the duties on ilquor which are It is, however, Just and proper that I and Government favours the sugger-estimated to bring in $650,000 per should state at this juncture that in tion, that the additional annual ex-

the Government's view the taxation onnum penditure of between 1 and 5 lakhs It is proposed to increase the Enter-scheme framed in the bill will not should be met by an Increase of one talnments Tax, to increase Estate be as equitable or as efficient a means per cent on the rates. The existing Duty and impose a new tax on table of raising revenue as would be an unsatisfactory nrrangements

are waters, and an order to that effect Income Tax measure on the lines estimated to cost householders half a under the Public Revenue Protection which you, Sir, and your advisers had million dollars annually, and the Ordinance has also been signed. in contemplation a few months ago.

will proposal

relleve

those con-There is no reason why the consumers Unofficial Objections cerned ol thal expenditure and of sarsaparilla and lemonade should "It may seem anomalous that an spread il pycr

the community not in their degree contribute with Administration, with a competent majority on the Legislature, should deliberately promote one measure be- lieving another to be its superior, but the explanation is not far to seck, This bill's principal purpose is to finance

free gift not inconsiderable from publle funds to Majesty's Government, and in such n' case it

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would be improper to faree upon the would-be-donors by the use of that majority a taxation method to which the unofficial members of this Counci had objected strongly and unani- mously,

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Reconsideration Of Principle Circumstances have altered con siderably since Government accepted with expressed reluctance the recom mendations of the War Revenue Commitice and though Government does not propose to repudiate that ac- ceptance it feels, in view of the change in the financial position and the situation disclosed by the actunt receipts from the four war taxes, that the principles on which the taxation is based should be reconsidered.

Lam

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I am accordingly authorised by Your Excellency to state that you propose to reconstitute the War Revenue Committee and to refer the matter to it for re-examination and advice.

1 venture in passing to invite the attention of Honourable Members to the fact that expenditure on the War Taxation Department itself both this year and next has been and will be kept

ori considerably lower than

It only the detailed

the

Cation of the es

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has also been responsible for the preparation of the memorandum which accompanies it.

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